A novel VLSI for reproduction of brain activity based on self-reconfigurable asynchronous sequential logic circuit towards applications to neural prosthesis

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24700225
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Sensitivity informatics/Soft computing
• Research Institution: Kyoto Sangyo University (2013-2014); Osaka University (2012)
• Principal Investigator: TORIKAI Hiroyuki 京都産業大学, コンピュータ理工学部, 教授 (20318603)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 非同期順序回路 / 神経補綴

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study is aiming at establishment of a systematic design procedure of neuro-hardware that can be implemented with low hardware cost. In this study, novel artificial neuron models the dynamics of which have asynchronous state transitions (i.e., the models are asynchronous sequential logic circuits) are presented. It is shown that the presented models can be implemented by less number of transistors compared to conventional artificial neuron models. Moreover, a network of one of the presented neuron models is presented and it is shown that the presented network has higher reproducibility of brain activities compared to conventional artificial neuron network models.

Free Research Field

非線形回路理論